[Tutor] Me again

Dick Moores rdm at rcblue.com
Fri Aug 13 15:21:47 CEST 2004


Vsevolod Sipakov wrote at 05:34 8/13/2004:
>def average(l):
>     return sum(l) / len(l)

 >>> l = [1,2,3,4,4]
 >>> print average(l)
2

Shouldn't this be:
 >>> def average(l):
     return sum(l)*1.0 / len(l)

 >>> l = [1,2,3,4,4]
 >>> print average(l)
2.8

Dick Moores




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